Recs if you like The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts...
Books About Books 📚
Bibliophilia at its best - books about books, readers, libraries, bookstores!
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Books about library workers and libraries
Does what it says on the tin (or the back of the book?). This list is specifically about the people who make libraries work as well as libraries as a concept, but not books that only use the library as a setting for a novel (there are other amazing lists that already do that!).
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The First Condition of Progress
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” — George Bernard Shaw
Nonfiction about book banning, censorship, and intellectual freedom. Bans off our books!!!
Looking for fiction? Check out my list I ❤️ My Right to Read!
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Librarians, Archivists, and Booksellers in Nonfic
Nonfiction featuring stories, mysteries and histories of librarians, archivists, booksellers, and antiquarian booksellers.
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Purveyors of Books
Books about Librarians and Booksellers, real and fictional.
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Bookshops
✨️For Sal ✨️
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Books about Books
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World Reading Exploring Africa through Books
Books set in Africa or written by African authors.
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Greco-Roman and Medieval Europe nonfiction
(WIP) I'm a Roman historian and I wanted to make a list of books that I learned a lot from and that non-historians can enjoy :) (nb: some might be textbooks but they are textbooks I have found to be accessible)
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